The Gazette 1955-58

student who receives the highest marks on the aggregate results of the Second and Third Law Examinations held by the Incorporated Law Society pursuant to the Solicitors Act 1954 (Apprenticeship and Education) Regulations 1955 (S.I. No. 217 of 195 5) as amended by the Solicitors Act 1954 (Appren ticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1956 (S.I. No. 307 of 1956.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that if any person has any objection to make, or suggestion to offer, he, or she, should forward the same in writing to the Office of the said Commissioners within FOURTEEN DAYS from the date of this Notice. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD. Dated this -jth day of February, 1958. J. S. MARTIN, Secretary. Office of the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for Ireland, 128 Lower Baggot Street, DUBLIN. DECISIONS OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST Unfair attraction of business : acting for both parties' In a matter which was brought before the Disci plinary Committee in England the facts were as follows : A firm of solicitors was charged with, inter alia, an offence under Rule i of the Solicitors' Practice Rules, 1936, namely, that they had done a thing which could reasonably be regarded as calculated to attract business unfairly. The solicitors acted for an estate development company who were building and selling a block of flats at prices of £2,500 or £2,600 each. In August, 1955, the company were concerned at what they considered to be delay on the part of various solicitors acting for purchasers in com pleting the purchases. They asked the solicitors if completion would be expedited if they acted for both parties, and if they would be prepared so to act. The solicitors expressed reluctance to act, but, in reply to the company's query as to what their costs would be if they did act, said they would amount to £21. In October, 1955, a proposed purchaser was written to by the sales manager of the company to the effect that, if she engaged the company's soli citors, completion would be speeded up and the company would pay the stamp duty ; he also stated that the solicitors' costs would be reduced by about £10, if they acted for both parties.

of one annual scholarship to the student who (a) has entered into Indenture of Apprenticeship ; (£) has attended a year's course of lectures approved by the Society at Dublin University or at one of the con stituent Colleges of the National University of Ireland ; (f) has not at any time been a Solicitor's Clerk who has availed himself of the provision of paragraph 5 of the Second Schedule to the Solicitors Act 1954 ; (d) has not presented himself for the first law examination on any previous occasion; (e) has not been called to the Bar ; and (f) has in the opinion of the Council of the Incorporated Law Society by his answering at the Society's first law examina tion shown the most proficiency in the subjects of the said examination. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that if any person has any objection to make, or suggestion to offer, concerning the above provisional Order, he, or she, should forward to the same in writing to this Office within FOURTEEN DAYS from the date of this Notice. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD, Dated this jth day of February, 1958. J. S. MARTIN, Secretary. Office of the Commissioners of , Charitable Donations and Bequests for Ireland, 128 Lower Baggot Street, DUBLIN. COMMISSIONERS OF CHARITABLE DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR IRELAND Public Notice (Pursuant to the provisions of Section 6 of the Charitable Donations and Bequests Act 1871 as amended by the Charitable Donations and Bequests (Amendment Act) 1955.) The Findlater Scholarship WHEREAS the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for Ireland at their meeting held on 8th October, 1957, acting under the power vested in them by Section 6 of the Charitable Donations and Bequests Act 1871 as amended by the Charitable Donations and Bequests (Amendment) Act 1955 made a provisional Cy-pres Order relating to the future application of the Findlater Scholarship Fund. AND WHEREAS at their meeting held on the I4th January, 1958, the said Commissioners made a further Order modifying their previous Order so as to provide for the future application of the Charity income in the award of an annual scholarship to the